(This posting reflects an existing vacancy)
Join On Side Restoration as a Drywaller/Painter and help rebuild homes and businesses after disaster strikes. You’ll repair and finish drywall, apply textures, and bring spaces to life with fresh paint.
Compensation
- Salary Range: $33-$35/hour
- Overtime opportunities (where applicable)
- On-call premium and overtime paid for rotating coverage (if applicable)
Benefits
- Extended health coverage (medical, dental, vision, etc.)
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Group RRSP, with company matching DPSP
- Life and disability insurance
- Opportunities for advancement and internal mobility
What You’ll Do
- Measure, cut, install, and repair damaged drywall
- Estimate the quantity of materials required by measuring surfaces, reviewing scopes, sketches and work orders
- Ceiling texture
- Tape, mud, sand, and texture surfaces
- Prepare and protect work sites
- Prepare surfaces and apply primers, paints, stains, or finishes
- Apply finishes that are sponged, ragged and layered
- Feathering/blending wall paint
- Match colors and apply coatings using brushes, rollers, or spray guns
- Install wall coverings
What You Bring
- 5+ years of drywall repair experience (cutting, mudding, sanding, taping, painting)
- Experience with restoration repairs (vs new or renovation)
- Level 5 drywall finishing technique
- Brush/roller/spray gun paint experience to finish the area for uniformity and completion
- Construction experience and tool proficiency: you have your own tools for the job
- Previous experience reading and executing work orders
- Texturing skills (knockdown, popcorn, orange peel)
- Physically fit: able to do heavy lifting (moving materials) and long periods of kneeling/bending/crouching/reaching
- Ability to work independently or in a team
- Tech-savvy (comfortable using apps/software)
- Strong communication and people skills
- Detail-oriented, quality-driven, safety-focused
- Valid driver’s licence and clean criminal record (we do check)
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and spoken
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A workplace that values respect, integrity, generosity, excellence and being customer driven
- Opportunities to grow your career and learn from the best in the industry
- A culture that celebrates teamwork, inclusion, and customer-driven service
Of Note:
Disasters can strike at any time so a rotating schedule of 24/7 after hours on-call work is a consideration. This is not currently a mandatory requirement but could be discussed.
At On Side, everything starts with people. We live our values — respect, integrity, generosity, excellence, and customer focus — in everything we do.
Join a team that helps families, businesses, and communities rebuild when it matters most. You’ll contribute to a workplace where people come together to bring order to chaos.
Make a real impact, do work that matters, and grow your career with us.
*Your application is always reviewed by real people. We don’t use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for this role.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $28.00-$30.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- Restoration work requires documentation and tracking throughout your workday. Do you have basic computer and/or tablet/iPad experience? Are you comfortable operating a phone to navigate through applications and record info as instructed?
- Quality and attention to detail are critical in this role. Tell us about your commitment to producing high-quality work and getting it right the first time.
- This role requires working independently with minimal supervision, can you describe your experience managing your own projects or workload?
- Can you describe your hands-on experience with finish carpentry (e.g., trim, cabinetry, molding, doors)?
- Please describe your experience with texturing with painting and/or drywalling:
- This position requires lots of standing, crouching, bending, reaching, kneeling, etc. Are you comfortable with this kind of constant repetitive movement?
Experience:
- drywalling and finishing: 5 years (preferred)
- brush and roller painting: 5 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Canadian Driver's License (required)
Work Location: In person
